Kirk Cousins Quotes

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

Those who are privileged have little regard for history.

People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.

I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.

I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or 'chosen' or feel they have an entitlement... be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life.

I don't think that the trickle-down theory of diversity ever really works.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

I want nothing to do with privilege.

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

Sadly, the pernicious ironies of privilege talk are generally lost on those who claim to be most aware of privilege.

Some people say we have this inequality because some people have been contributing much more to our society, and so it's fair that they get more. But then you look at the people who are at the top, and you realize they're not the people who have transformed our economy, our society.

I'm aware that not everybody gets that feeling of ease walking through the world that I have.

I'm a white male in power. In many cases, I'm the enemy.

I don't really have a political agenda, I just like things to be fair - I get angered by pomposity and privilege.

We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.